We were out of town for a long weekend, to honor an important friend and now we’re back…back…back! There are any number of bright shiny topics to attract our attention, but first and foremost of these is the last 24 hours of the Kickstarter campaign for the second album by the Countess Of Fife. When we last posted, at the start of the campaign, the target was £10,500 for recording expenses. Which was particularly needed with the decline in arts funding in Scotland since the first album a few years back.

I was away much of the last week and now see that the tally is tantalizingly close for the end goal with the current pledge total sitting at £9,827! Leaving just £673 to raise in the next 24 hours! C’mon people! I’ve seen these crowdsource campaigns for years now. There’s three types:

• Rabbit – The goal is met ridiculously fast…within hours/days
• Turtle – Slow and steady eventually crosses the finish line…usually in the last hours of the window of opportunity!
• Roadkill – It never achieves the finish! This is thankfully rare in my experience. Only one in over a decade of participating in these campaigns.

It looks like this one is trending towards Turtle. Full of drama, but by miles better than Roadkill status. And to sweeten the pot, Countess Of Fife have made their own pledge: Everyone who pledged at least £10.00, which is to say everyone who pledged, will qualify for a concert/party [obviously in Scotland] as a thank you for all pledgers.

When and where are yet to be determined but it’s likely to be in the Countess’ home turf of Edinburgh. We’ve already pledged for a CD and I’m hopeful that the target will get hit and the amount will be deducted from my account! But if we lived in Edinburgh, that £550.00 home concert might have happened. We don’t necessarily need any high rollers, but if you’ve been on the fence for a modest amount, it’s only £673.00 hanging in the void between nothing and album number two from the passion project of the ever lovin’ Ms. Fay Fife. DJs…hit that button!

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